Reclining-chair



(No Model.)

RBGLINING CHAIR.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,477, dated April 6, 1886.

Application filed J anuary 18, 1886. Serial No. 188,873. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SANFORD G. Sonnnrrr, of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have made certain new and useful Improvements in RecliningOhairs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to that class of reclining-chairs having adjustable head-rests, and has for its object a simple and certain means of automatically adjusting the head-rest to the varying inclinations of the back of the chair.

It consists in hinging to the movable arms and extension side brackets, between which the head-rest is pivoted to the back of a reclining-chair, upright bars formed with slots in which work studs or pins projecting from the ends of the head-rest, the slotted bars acting in combination with the extension side brackets and with specially formed shoulders on the movable arms in such a manner that upon pushing backward the back of ihe reclining-chair to any desired inclination the head-rest is brought by the slotted bars and studs or pins into a corresponding adjustment to a persons head.

On the accompanying drawings, Fignrel is a side and front perspective view of a reclining-chair fitted with my invention, and Fig. 2 a detached view of apart of Fig. 1, like letters denoting like parts in both figures.

a (L are the hinged movable arms of the reclining-chair b, and to each of these arms is hinged at c an upright bar, (1, formed with slot 6, the pin a passing through the lower end of the extension-bracket f, which is screwed or otherwise secured to the side of the back 1, the latter being hinged below in the usual manner. The head-rest h extends between and is pivoted at z to the upper ends of the extensionbrackets f, each end of the headrest it being formed at a suitable distance from the pivot i with a stud or pin, j, which passes through the slot e of the bar cl. On each movable arm a, directly behind the front edge of the bar (2, is a shoulder, k,(see also Fig. 2,) for taking against the beveled hinged end 0 of the bar (Z.

On pushing backward the back g of the rethe bars (1, after a certain distance has been traversed by the movable arms a, are caught by the shoulders 7r, whereby the bars d are hold fast at a fixed angle or position to the arms a, and on the back 9 being pushed further backward into the position shown by the dotted lines, the upper ends of the extension or head-rest brackets f describe alouger arc than the hinged endsc of the bars d, and consequently diverge or separate from the upper ends of the latter, and the studs or pins j being constrained by the slots 6 of the bars (I the latter thereby cause the head-rest h to be partially rotated on its pivot 43, in the direction indicated by the arrow,to the required adjustment relatively with the back 9, as shown by the dotted lines.

I claim as my invention- In a reclining-chair, the combination of the movable arms a, having shoulders 7r,cxtcnsion or head-rest brackets f, secured to sides of backfg, and carrying headrest h, with studs or pins 3', hinge c, and slotted arms (I, substantially as ShOWll,\,lld for thepurpose described.

In testimony whereof I have a'ffixed my Sig nature, in presence of two witnesses, this 12th day of January, 1886.

SANFORD G. SOARR-ITT.

Witnesses:

PAUL BAKEWELL, J. \V. GROOKES.

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